Research: LEY and COLLEAGUES,

Abstract

LEY and COLLEAGUES, (1)Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada investigated whether dietary vitamin E intake during the second trimester of pregnancy would be associated with glucose metabolism later in pregnancy.

Background

Beneficial effects of vitamin E on insulin sensitivity have been reported in observational and short-term intervention studies in non-pregnant populations. The authors set out to investigate whether dietary vitamin E intake during the second trimester would be associated with glucose metabolism later in pregnancy and whether this association would be influenced by an insulin-sensitizing hormone adiponectin.

Conclusion

Lower dietary vitamin E intake during the second trimester is associated with hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance later in pregnancy among women consuming daily multivitamin supplementations. Further, these associations are not influenced by adiponectin.